Six Meetings Before Lunch

Teaser

Toby: These things take patience. These things take skill. These things take luck. In the fifteen months we've been in office, what kind of luck have we had, Ginger?

Ginger: Bad luck.

Toby: What kind of luck?

Ginger: Very bad luck.

Thing = Supreme Court nominee confirmations

Josh: A panda's what I think it is, right? Little Australian thing, eats the bark off a koala tree?

Donna: That's a koala bear I believe you're describing.

Josh: The panda's the other one.

Thing = animal
Act 1

Josh: I mean…was there a thing?

Leo: Two sentences on the back dust jacket of a book that's coming out called The Unpaid Debt.

Josh: That's it?

Leo: Stadler's unhappy.

Thing = outcry over the statement in support for slavery reparation made by a nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights

Leo: What the hell is that?

Josh: CJ's going to do “The Jackal”.

Leo: Oh, where she lip-syncs to the thing?

Thing = song
Act 3

Gina: The thing with the reporter this morning - it was fast, it was physical, she's 19 years old and she thought her father was in trouble.

Thing = confrontation in which a reporter goaded Zoey by asking her if the president's daughter should be partying with drug dealers
Posted by Ryo at April 5, 2000 04:11 PM